{"id":7594,"date":"2009-12-21T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2009-12-21T10:06:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T18:06:48","slug":"american-values-the-art-of-the-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7594","title":{"rendered":"American Values &#038; The Art of the Possible&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>$636 billion for <i><b>annual<\/b><\/i> military spending was <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/12\/19\/senate.defense\/\">approved by the U.S. Senate<\/a> over the weekend, with little more than a hiccup of debate from Republican &#8220;conservatives,&#8221; not a peep from the Democrats, and even less coverage from the corporate mainstream media.<\/p>\n<p>But $850 billion for <i><b>10 years<\/b><\/i> of what is ostensibly meant to be health care reform for the health and welfare of American citizens &#8212; all while reducing the budget deficit by $132 billion over that period, according to the CBO?  &#8220;<i>A budget buster!<\/i>,&#8221; shout the phony &#8220;conservatives&#8221; in the same Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s your &#8220;American Values,&#8221; in a two-part nutshell, from today&#8217;s Republicans and the Democrats and corporate media who enable their madness as if it weren&#8217;t so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$636 billion for annual military spending was approved by the U.S. Senate over the weekend, with little more than a hiccup of debate from Republican &#8220;conservatives,&#8221; not a peep from the Democrats, and even less coverage from the corporate mainstream media. But $850 billion for 10 years of what is ostensibly meant to be health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,239,299,272,288,24,188,300,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-barack-obama","category-democrats","category-dept-of-defense","category-health-care","category-iraq-war","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-republicans","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}